How to Eat More Vegetables: Recipes for Where to Start

How to Eat More Vegetables: Recipes for Where to Start

How to eat more vegetables We get a lot of requests about one single question: How can I eat more vegetables" Here?s an email from a reader we got a few weeks ago: Hi! I am emailing for some tips on how to start a plant based diet for my family. Cooking does not come naturally for me. My kids are 5 and 2 and it’s important to me that we all fix up our eating habits. We eat lots of fruit and mostly chicken and rice is various forms. Vegetables are lacking in our diet other than raw carrots and cucumbers and occasionally some broccoli. Any advice you have that won’t blow out my budget would be great! ~Catherine M. Just jump in Alex and I have a unique approach when it comes to this conundrum. It?s called Just Jump In. The difference between JJI (can we call it that") and other approaches to eating more vegetables is that in JJI, you don?t need to know anything to get started. You don?t have to wait to read up on cooking vegetables or buy lots of expensive kitchen gadgets. You simply need to make one recipe. For example, try a vegetarian […]
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How to eat more vegetables
We get a lot of requests about one single question: How can I eat more vegetables"
Here?s an email from a reader we got a few weeks ago:
Hi! I am emailing for some tips on how to start a plant based diet for my family. Cooking does not come naturally for me. My kids are 5 and 2 and it’s important to me that we all fix up our eating habits. We eat lots of fruit and mostly chicken and rice is various forms. Vegetables are lacking in our diet other than raw carrots and cucumbers and occasionally some broccoli. Any advice you have that won’t blow out my budget would be great! ~Catherine M.
Just jump in
Alex and I have a unique approach when it comes to this conundrum. It?s called Just Jump In. The difference between JJI (can we call it that") and other approaches to eating more vegetables is that in JJI, you don?t need to know anything to get started. You don?t have to wait to read up on cooking vegetables or buy lots of expensive kitchen gadgets. You simply need to make one recipe. For example, try a vegetarian main dish. If you like the recipe, great! Make it again sometime.
Here?s the kicker: if you don?t like the recipe or it didn?t fit into your lifestyle, you don?t throw in the towel and call it quits. You make another recipe and see if you like that one. You keep trying until you start to find recipes that do fit your tastes and lifestyle. It sounds overly simple, but so many people we talk to try one or two recipes and then quit. The reason Alex and I are here today are that we just kept trying! And we found delicious, wholesome vegetarian recipes that fit our budget and time constraints.

How to find the right recipes for you" We?ll admit, between the internet and cookbooks, it?s still difficult to find recipes that hit your dietary restrictions, taste preferences...

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